Last week saw the inaugural Cyber Crime ‘Shared Responsibility’ Conference in Nottingham. The event saw a large number of partners gather to share best practice around this growing area of crime.

A key focus of the conference was on how stakeholders from the private and the public sector can work together to collaborate and share information. It goes without saying, but cyber crime does not respect police force boundaries but crosses national and international borders that feeds into all aspects of criminal behaviour and that affects huge numbers of people the world over.

It is also a well known fact that cyber crime is often linked to serious organised crime groups – another element of criminality that does not respect borders but one that has links in a wide number of areas, both geographically and in different crime groups such as gang violence, drug dealing, trafficking and fraud.

As this conference states in its title, ‘Shared Responsibility’, it is essential that crime fighting organisations work together to tackle these groups. By giving organisations such as Greater Manchester Police and GAIN (Government Agency Intelligence Network) the tools to work together and to share sensitive information pam can help police forces around the country to dismantle these OCGs in a systematic and thorough way.

Pam has worked with police forces and other agencies, such as the National Trading Standards Board to develop a solution and a platform that has the highest levels of security. This allows organisations to share data securely and efficiently in order to prevent the spread of the criminality that leaks into every aspect of communities as a result of OCGs.

Detective Chief Superintendent, Paul Richardson, from Merseyside Police said: “pam enabled us to deliver a very quick and effective response to burglaries against the Chinese community. Using co-ordinated management that fulfilled the 4 Ps framework laid out by the government’s Serious Organised Crime strategy. We were met with a community who felt significantly under threat from crime and we were able to transform them in to a community that felt safe and supported by the police. pam had a significant role to play in that.”

To find out more about how pam can help contact us.